St. Clair Twp – New Miami Life Squad

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Runs

Region	This Month	Last Month	This Month Last Year
New Miami	22	32	34
St. Clair Township	51	52	47
Seven Mile (mutual aid)	0	0	1
Trenton (mutual aid)	0	0	0
Hamilton (mutual aid)	0	0	2
Madison (mutual aid)	0	0	0
Wayne (mutual aid)	0	2	3
Ross (mutual aid)	0	0	0
Totals:	73	86	87

2009 totals as of the end of the month

Of particular note:

The first run of 2009 was made by Paramedic Jennifer Schwartz and Intermediate Donna Lucas with the St. Clair Township Fire Department to the area of Riverside and Chapman for heavy smoke in the area on New Years Day. The first medical run of 2009 was made by Paramedic Brett Procaccini and Paramedic Teri Meade to the intersection of SR127 and Seven Mile Ave for a male ill.

Training

No formal training was conducted during January.

Upcoming Trainings:

Mandatory annual skills testing has been scheduled for February 3^rd, 14^th and 24^th.

Incidents

There were no reportable incidents during the month of January

The member injured in the wet floor incident in June 2008 is still currently off work.

Safety

During the month of January informal training was held on “Scene Safety” as well as “Building Safety”. The department is compliant on all vehicle checks and inspections.

Membership

• Member Zach Short is currently on Military Leave
• Member Sandie Cheek is currently on Medical Leave
• Member James Crim is currently on Personal Leave for Paramedic School. We are pleased to report that Mr. Crim is due to graduate February 16. Congratulations Mr. Crim.
• Member Marci Gasteneau has an approved shift waiver for limited shifts due to school obligations.
• Member Matthew Sparto has been suspended indefinately.
• Member James Gray has been cleared and is running shifts as a second EMT.

Hiring process status:

• Tyler Donovan – EMT Basic – Awaiting initial interview.
• Scott Logsdon – EMT Basic – Awaiting initial interview.
• Nicole Taylor – EMT Basic – Initial interviews and checks completed, waiting on second interview.
• Nicole Anderson – EMT Basic – Initial interviews and checks completed, waiting on second interview.
• Charles Kimbrell – Trainee – Initial interviews and checks completed, waiting on second interview.

Our current staffing is:

• Paramedics: 8
• Intermediate EMTs: 3
• Basic EMTs: 10
• Trainees (non-certified): 5

Total Members: 26

Total Certified Members: 21

Effective Certified Staffing: 17 (3 leave, 1 waiver)

* Note that for a 30 day month it requires 20 certified members reliably running 6 volunteer shifts in order to properly cover the first out squad.

We are pleased to report that all certified members (waivers and leave non-withstanding) completed at least the required shifts again for the month of January. This makes four months in a row we’ve been able to report such.

Extra thanks goes to the members pulling additional shifts above and beyond the call.

Operations

Department shift coverage continued to be less problematic during the month of January due in combination to achieving expected shift performance for all certified members and continued additional help from some. We are pleased to report that this is the fourth month in a row where all certified members completed at least the expected number of shifts. There were also no out of service periods during the month. There was one shift January 21^st where staffing was such that only one member (Paramedic Steve Weigold) was available to respond as a first responder. No transports were lost as a result of the staffing shortage.

Public Relations

There were no significant public relations efforts in January to report.

Meetings

In the course of department operations, members attended official meetings as follows:

• January 12 – St. Clair Township Trustees Meeting – Chief Steve Weigold

• January 28 – Butler County EMS Council Meeting – rescheduled due to weather – Chief Steve Weigold

Grants

The Communications Infrastructure Project has reached a milestone as our new phone and voicemail system has been installed and is functioning. Several minor functional upgrades remain but otherwise the project is substantially complete.

Websites

Note that while the maintenance of the township websites is not directly under the Life Squad’s area of responsibility, it is currently being done by a Life Squad member and as such, a report on the websites is now being included here in the absence of a more appropriate venue.

Both the Life Squad website as well as the township website have received substantial overhauls during the month of January. The changes include installing content management software which will allow easier additions to the sites as well as the designation of multiple “authors” allowing several people to update the content. A similar update of the Fire Department website is planned for the month of February. Gallery software has also been added which allows easy addition and management of images. For the Fire Department and Life Squad this will be used for managing images of incidents. For the Township this will allow a means for management of images of Township resources as well as zoning related images.

In particular, the following site postings were made during the month of January:

Life Squad Website

• 2008 Milestone – 1000^th Run

• 2008 Milestone – 2008 Final Run

• Monthly Report – December 2008

• Monthly Report – November 2008

• Monthly Report – October 2008

• Monthly Report – September 2008

• Detailed information on department location, staffing and billing

Township Website:

• December 2008 – Maintenance Department Report

• March 16 well water testing announcement

• Demographic information on Trustees Don Berry and Gary Couch

• Photographs of all Trustees and Fiscal Officer

• 2009 Calendar of Events

• Zoning information

Note that demographic information for Trustee Richard Lindy and Fiscal Officer Rhonda Gentry still needs to be provided and added. Updated recycling information is expected to be added during February